#afforestation — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/207812/ From Scarcity to Strategy: Why Somalia Needs a National Afforestation Programme #à #afforestation #from #National #Needs #programme #scarcity #Somalia #strategy #to #Why

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Asymmetric #Microclimate effects of #Afforestation across vertical stratification: a five-year field observation on the #LoessPlateau

#ClimateChange | #Long_termFieldMonitoring

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag091

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Asymmetric #Microclimate effects of #Afforestation across vertical stratification: a five-year field observation on the #LoessPlateau

#ClimateChange | #Long_termFieldMonitoring

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag091

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Asymmetric #Microclimate effects of #Afforestation across vertical stratification: a five-year field observation on the #LoessPlateau

#ClimateChange | #Long_termFieldMonitoring

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag091

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Asymmetric #Microclimate effects of #Afforestation across vertical stratification: a five-year field observation on the #LoessPlateau

#ClimateChange | #Long_termFieldMonitoring

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag091

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Asymmetric #Microclimate effects of #Afforestation across vertical stratification: a five-year field observation on the #LoessPlateau

#ClimateChange | #Long_termFieldMonitoring

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag091

Planting Trees to Heal Old Wounds: Can a Desert Forest Save the Aral’s Last Residents?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/planting-trees-to-heal-old-wounds-can-a-desert-forest-save-the-arals-last-residents/

New publication: Long-term diversifying #afforestation enhances #soil microbial network complexity and stability. #biodiversity #climatechange #microbialnetwork
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.123193

@timbray we have scalable and viable capture and storage technology; it's called "trees". We need to be preserving the ones we have and planting a lot more. #afforestation #reforestation

3-Jul-2025
A Journal of #Environmental Sciences study investigates #trees best suited for #cities
Researchers identify tree species with high #carbonSequestration potential and low air pollutant emissions for smarter #afforestation strategies

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089895 #science #ecology #UrbanEcology

https://www.europesays.com/uk/174119/ A Rising Force in the Voluntary Carbon Market • Carbon Credits #afforestation #Article6 #BaseCarbon #Business #CarbonCreditTrading #CarbonCredits #CarbonOffsets #CarbonRemoval #CleanTechStocks #ClimateFinance #EnvironmentalMarkets #ESGStocks #GreenInvesting #Markets #NetZero #reforestation #SustainableInvesting #UK #UnitedKingdom #VietnamWaterProject #VoluntaryCarbonMarket

Egypt and China Collaborate on Local Reforestation Projects https://www.byteseu.com/796024/ #Afforestation #biodiversity #China #ClimateChange #Egypt #MiddeEast #MinistryOfEnvironment #News #trees

The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers
#UK #Environment #ClimateChange #CarbonBudget #UKNetZero #ClimateAction #SustainableFarming #DietShift #Afforestation #FoodSecurity #GreenFuture
https://the-14.com/the-uk-must-make-big-changes-to-its-diets-farming-and-land-use-to-hit-net-zero-official-climate-advisers/

Forests can't be used in NDC (nationally determined contribution).Forests are in adaptation mode, that is, death by drought, bugs, fires, until new ecosystem members have moved in long after °C is stabilized.
Trees adapt to longer growth seasons, higher temperatures, over-fertilisation by CO2. This means less water and nutrients and makes them unhealthy.

Trees only park our CO2, then they burn.

#Koutsodendris et al 2020 counted pollen at Lake Ohrid, Albania.
Look at the gap between rising °C 🟡 vs rising pollen count for temperate/mesophilus trees 🟤 🟢.

Adapting to a new climate takes time, even with seed-carriers and migration corridors: 1000yrs until new ecosystem members have moved in and adaptation to a new stable climate is accomplished.

But we don't have migration corridors. We have settlements and agricultural wastelands with pesticides everywhere.

Also, sinks start outgassing once ppm drops. So if your #NDC include negative emissions by DACS or CCS to undo a temperature #overshoot, to really remove 1t CO2 from the system, you must remove 1.5t once we're in the negative emissions phase.

Outgassing is a physical process to balance changes in atmosphere composition. But of course, when ppm drops considerably, it also changes °C and regional climate and hydrological cycles – again. So your ecosystem is going into adaptation mode all over again. Forests burn.. again.

Overshoot scenarios aren't a good idea, even if we had working technology and concepts. CO2 removal adds another stressful phase and prolongs adaptation to changing factors – for us and our human systems, and for ecosystems on land and in the ocean.

#ClimateCrisis #COP29 #NDC #CCS #DACS #DAC #afforestation #deforestation #reforestation #landsink

😎 💦🌳 How can we cool down landscapes? A new study simulates and quantifies various climate adaptation measures such as #afforestation, #agroforestry and #rewetting for the Elbe-Elster district as a model region. https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/FPD/Die-Landschaft-kuehlen.aspx

@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all.

#SavannasMatter
Stop #forestization of #GrassyBiomes

#Ireland: To achieve net zero GHG #emissions, high rates of #afforestation, soil #rewetting, and #cattle destocking are needed. Technical #abatement cannot substitute these actions. #NetZero requires transforming the land sector: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01275-0 #agriculture #landuse

The urgency of implementing large-scale #tree planting is prompting funding of inadequately assessed projects that will most likely have negligible #sequestration benefits and cause potential social & ecological harm: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/15/ill-judged-tree-planting-africa-threatens-ecosystems-scientists-warn #afforestation #reforestation #landuse

"Global #carbon #emissions from #FossilFuels have risen again in 2023 – reaching record levels, according to new research from the Global Carbon Project science team.

The annual Global #Carbon Budget projects fossil carbon dioxide ( #CO2) emissions of 36.8 billion tonnes in 2023, up 1.1% from 2022.

Fossil CO2 emissions are falling in some regions, including #Europe and the #USA, but rising overall – and the scientists say global action to cut fossil fuels is not happening fast enough to prevent dangerous #ClimateChange.

#Emissions from land-use change (such as #deforestation) are projected to decrease slightly but are still too high to be offset by current levels of #reforestation and #afforestation (new forests).

The report projects that total global #CO2 #emissions (fossil + land use change) will be 40.9 billion tonnes in 2023.

This is about the same as 2022 levels, and part of a 10-year “plateau” – far from the steep reduction in emissions that is urgently needed to meet global #climate targets."

https://globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-co2-emissions-at-record-high-in-2023/

#Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Cop28
#GlobalCarbonBudget

#Afforestation & #reforestation may be strategies to mitigate GHG #emissions & #globalwarming. China's "Grain for Green Program" may induce #carbon sinks that offset 1-2% of the extensive #CO2 emissions from all of #China in 2060: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107272 #climatechange #landuse

#Photovoltaic fields largely outperform #afforestation efficiency in global #climatechange mitigation strategies:

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/11/pgad352/7429362?login=false

@alexwild the problem with tree planting is often an extreme overrating of the C sequestration potential - on the one hand if #grasslands are used for #afforestation there is a net loss of #soil C for the first decade(s). On the other there is a high risk for #damage and #disturbance (which is likely to increase in future) during stand development that is not accounted for in the calculations - we should plant trees AND strongly reduce GHG emissions.

"But there’s a lot of #carbon stored in the #forest #soils in #Ireland and we have to be aware of that." To establish storage banks of carbon, these forests have to be kept #intact — as opposed to harvested like spruce — potentially for a very long time, so we don’t disturb the soils. "The less disturbance there is to the forest the less carbon is lost out of the system."

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0316/1361450-ireland-data-forestry-trees-afforestation-biodiversity-climate-change-/

#Afforestation #Forestry #CarbonSinks #ecological #SoilHealth #TreePlanting #ProtectForests #trees